THE closest that anybody has come to the exploits of Ballydoyle in the last two weeks is the top rated Australian three-year-old filly Global Glamour who, last Saturday, won her second Group 1 race in seven days.

This came in the Thousand Guineas at Melbourne’s Caulfield, exactly one week after the filly had won the Flight Stakes at Sydney’s Randwick. This is all the more remarkable when you consider that, in the intervening time, the filly travelled by road - a journey of almost 900km.